Word: son-in-law
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...Dead men tell no tales," Benito Mussolini once reminded Count Galeazzo Ciano, little realizing that the son-in-law he ordered shot in January 1944 would prove a talkative exception. As Italy's Foreign Minister from 1936 to 1943, Ciano jotted day-to-day entries in a red diary. The first volume, covering 1939-43, appeared in 1945. The latest covers 1937-38, the years of the German annexation of Austria, the forging of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, and Munich. Like the first, it packs no great historical surprises, but sketches in a lively picture of intrigue...
McCarthy's threat to investigate the guarded activities of CIA came to a head when he demanded that CIAman William P. Bundy be fired. His reason: Bundy, a son-in-law of Dean Acheson, had reportedly contributed $400 to the Alger Hiss defense fund...
...something short of idyllic. At the village cafe, Jean was soon telling new friends that Pierre was a stingy old miser and Marie a homely, stupid wench whom he had only married in order to get her farm. Farmer Pierre shook his fist and swore that his son-in-law was a lazy good-for-nothing. "Someday," replied Jean, "I'm going to walk out on you, but before I go, I'm going to burn down your filthy farm...
...into $6,500,000. Just before Wilson testified, the court heard from Du Pont President Crawford Greenewalt, son-in-law of aged Irénée du Pont. He, too, had never heard the Du Fonts mention any Du Pont-G.M.-Rubber agreement, but he did add a footnote on his personal history. In 1926, on his marriage to Irénée's daughter Margaretta, Irénée had presented Greenewalt with 1,000 shares of stock in Christiana Securities Co., the holding company that controls Du Pont. The stock was then worth...
Elocution & Roses. At the time of the wedding, Ike Culp told his prospective son-in-law: "Will, she's going to embarrass you. She doesn't give a hang about clothes and doesn't dress up the way she should...